intro to stas

• The scientific method is the process by which scientists test hypotheses.
• Society is an organized group of people associated as members of a community.
• Development involves transforming research findings into prototype inventions of new materials, devices and processes.
• Innovation involves commercialization of prototype inventions of Research and Development into marketable products or processes.
• Research is a process of acquiring new knowledge.
• The power and promise of technology can be further enhanced through the study of technology to assure that all people are technologically literate in the future.
• Society is people in general thought of as living together in organized communities with shared laws, traditions and values.
• Types of Research include Fundamental/Basic Research, Applied, and Mission-Oriented.
• Types of Technology include Material technology, Equipment technology, Energy technology, Information Technology, Life Technology, and Management Technology
• Science is a system of knowledge of the natural world gained through the scientific method, primarily interested in the acquisition of knowledge, preoccupied with the "know-why" resulting in new knowledge usually disseminated through science papers, and is a kind of human cultural activity which is practiced by people known as scientists and formerly called natural philosophers and savants.
• Science is a complex system of people, skills, facilities, knowledge, material or physical resources and technologies devoted and directed to the inquiry into and understanding of the natural world.
• Science as a modern science is the dynamic cumulative inquiry into nature using the scientific method.
• Science deals with the natural world, is concerned with what is (exist) in the natural world, focuses on research, and is concerned with discovering natural phenomena.
• Technology comes from Greek words tekhne meaning “art or craft” and logi a meaning a ‘subject or interest”, is the practical application of knowledge, is the science of industrial arts and manufacture, and is a kind of human cultural activity or endeavor which is practiced by people called technologists which include engineers, craftsmen and machinists.
• Technology is a complex system of knowledge, skills, people, methods, tools, organization, facilities, materials, physical resources devoted and directed to the research, development, production as well operation of a new or improved product, process or services in a reproducible way.
• Society is an organized group of people associated as members of a community.
• Development involves transforming research findings into prototype inventions of new materials, devices and processes.
• Innovation involves commercialization of prototype inventions of Research and Development into marketable products or processes.
• Research is a process of acquiring new knowledge.
• The power and promise of technology can be further enhanced through the study of technology to assure that all people are technologically literate in the future.
• Society is people in general thought of as living together in organized communities with shared laws, traditions and values.
• Types of Research include Fundamental/Basic Research, Applied, and Mission-Oriented.
• Types of Technology include Material technology, Equipment technology, and Energy technology.
• Technology comes from Greek words ‘techne’ meaning art or craft and ‘logia’ meaning a subject or interest, meaning practical applications of what we know about nature using scientific principles for the betterment of the human situation.
• Technology can be classified based on a country’s level of technological sophistication.
• Application of the construct to the aspect, problem, question or phenomenon is the third step in the scientific process.
• First Wave Technology, also known as Agricultural Age, comprises the pre-industrial technologies which are labor-intensive, small-scale, decentralized and based on empirical rather than scientific knowledge.
• Acceptance, adoption modification or rejection of the construct base on the application and assessment, evaluation or analysis is the fifth step in the scientific process.
• Geology, Chemistry, Physics, Biology and Astronomy are branches of science.
• Production or execution of plan or design is the third step in the technology process.
• The use of phase is the fourth step in the technology process.
• Conceptualization of design or plan to satisfy the need or opportunity is the second step in the technology process.
• Technology processes start with identification of a specific need, desire or opportunity to be satisfied of interest to the practitioner or technologist.
• Shifting and Farming societies, e.g. slash and burn farming, are characterized by agricultural and mining activities that depend on the natural resources of the world but entail the risk of environmental damage.
• Scientific method involves identification of an aspect, problem, question or phenomenon of nature of interest to the scientists or practitioner, formulation of some sort of intellectual construct, application of the construct to the aspect, problem, question or phenomenon, assessment, evaluation or analysis of the adequacy of fit, compatibility or appropriateness of the construct to the aspect, problem, question or phenomenon, and acceptance, adoption modification or rejection of the construct based on the application and assessment, evaluation or analysis.</flash
• Formulation of some sort of intellectual construct - a guess or hypothesis or theory - is the second step in the scientific process.
• Second Wave technology, comprising the industrial technologies which were developed since the time of industrial revolution until the end of World War II, are usually capital-intensive technologies and are essentially based on the classical principles of classical physics, chemistry and biology.
• Modern science and philosophy of science can be compared and contrasted.
• Synthesizing and Recycling societies, involved in the production of synthetic food and other resources and recycling of nonrenewable resources, are the current stage of technological development.
• Observing, Describing, Comparing, Classifying, Measuring and Making inferences are scientific processes.